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the reason is the audience is spread out through off-track betting and simulcasting race is a different tracks. there are trucks there are no horse races them that people can wager on horses from other tracks. that said, it is not as popular as it was in the 1930's. a lot of that is in the 1930's the nfl and the nba didn't exist yet. they're also wasn't the proliferation of gambling opportunities. so, things have changed in that way to read it grew in popularity for quite some time and the biggest mistake that raising made was to not allow television. when television came out, they were not allowing a lot of major races to be shown on tv because they were worried people wouldn't bet on them anymore. television went to football and that hurt the sport a lot. it's coming back with a vengeance right now. all of the indicators are on the upswing for the races and i am very optimistic. >> there is no doubt that your [inaudible] >> we have a couple questions over here. >> what's your next book going to be? >> i get asked that a lot. i actually got a whole lot sicker once i finished the book.
the reason is the audience is spread out through off-track betting and simulcasting race is a different tracks. there are trucks there are no horse races them that people can wager on horses from other tracks. that said, it is not as popular as it was in the 1930's. a lot of that is in the 1930's the nfl and the nba didn't exist yet. they're also wasn't the proliferation of gambling opportunities. so, things have changed in that way to read it grew in popularity for quite some time and the...
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that must've been -- today that would be very cothat must've bet would be very controversial. was a controversial? >> hopkins himself was a lightning rod for criticism. and he was considered to be a rasputin, putting evil thoughts into heads. so the controversy that he had all those powers. he was the only civilian admitted into the map room in the white house with all the cables. all the cables came in from all over the world on national security issues. he was the only guy admitted in there to go in there anytime he wanted to. so he was hated by the conservatives of the country at the time. they printed all kinds of scurrilous things about him in "the washington post." despite his thick skin, he was very sincere, particularly about allegations against his wife supposedly taking tools from [inaudible name]. not the jewels that she said she took, but some other ones. [laughter] but yeah, i mean, when they reorganize the state department, he was very severely criticized for packing it with his people, which he did. basically choosing secretary of state. and could there be someb
that must've been -- today that would be very cothat must've bet would be very controversial. was a controversial? >> hopkins himself was a lightning rod for criticism. and he was considered to be a rasputin, putting evil thoughts into heads. so the controversy that he had all those powers. he was the only civilian admitted into the map room in the white house with all the cables. all the cables came in from all over the world on national security issues. he was the only guy admitted in...
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diana said i'll bet my bottom dollar it is a pair of debate outside. so he lived in this mansion of fifth avenue. he entertained his friends, but he slowly faded in the fall of 1945. bernard farouk was one of his favorite cardplaying partners during the final days. then he went into the hospital and died in january -- the end of january 1945 and his funeral was at saint bartholomew's church on fifth avenue. [inaudible] -- other members of roosevelt's brain trust? >> at what is his relationship with rexford talk well i'm probably way more and others are in the new to the brain trust? he was a part of the brain trust. he came into really had up for jobs programs. he did meet occasionally with a group at the department of agriculture. he obviously knew them all. he was close to felix frankfurter. the people that really worked with him for oscar cox and isadora lupine. but he was very close to frances perkins. frances perkins helped him get his job. hey, nancy. >> you tacked a little bit about cordell hull and the extraordinary situation is hopkins being,
diana said i'll bet my bottom dollar it is a pair of debate outside. so he lived in this mansion of fifth avenue. he entertained his friends, but he slowly faded in the fall of 1945. bernard farouk was one of his favorite cardplaying partners during the final days. then he went into the hospital and died in january -- the end of january 1945 and his funeral was at saint bartholomew's church on fifth avenue. [inaudible] -- other members of roosevelt's brain trust? >> at what is his...
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and diana said i'll bet my bottom dollar it was avril herriman who bankrolled that. so he lived in this mansion on fifth avenue. he entertained his friends. but he slowly faded in the fall of 1945. bernard pa rook was one of his -- baa rook was one of his favorite card-playing partners during the final days, and then he went into the hospital, and he died in january of -- right at the end of january 1945, and his funeral was at st. bartholomew's church on fifth avenue. i'm sorry, hi. yeah. >> what was hopkins' relationship to tugwell and other members of roosevelt's brain trust? >> yeah. what was his relationship with rexford tugwell and probably ray moley and the others who were in the sort of new deal brain trust. he wasn't part of the brain trust. you know, he came in to really head up the jobs programs. he did meet occasional ri with -- occasionally with sort of that rump group over at the department of agriculture. he obviously knew them all. he was close to felix frankfurter. his guys know -- the people who really worked with him were oscar cox and isadore rubi
and diana said i'll bet my bottom dollar it was avril herriman who bankrolled that. so he lived in this mansion on fifth avenue. he entertained his friends. but he slowly faded in the fall of 1945. bernard pa rook was one of his -- baa rook was one of his favorite card-playing partners during the final days, and then he went into the hospital, and he died in january of -- right at the end of january 1945, and his funeral was at st. bartholomew's church on fifth avenue. i'm sorry, hi. yeah....
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it makes it sexy and interesting place to work when i bet it will be net a huge positive to get equality people to the cia. despite her -- all of her personal problems, and that i think . >> [inaudible] [inaudible] and somebody should ask that question to the cia. what happened in the last six months. >> they have been cooperative. >> they realize that but it would be hard for any government agency to put their neck on the line saying yeah, i'm going support a by polar agent who is sleeping with an islamic radical. [laughter] >> in some ways it high lights things more when you look at one person. through the journey of david frost, his relationship which it began as a play in a small theater in london and wednesday went to the west end and broadway and a movie. the very first preview performance across nixon in a tiny little theater in london, the entire back row were frost's lawyers. [laughter] the preview david himself was there, having supposedly being given the all clear or told you should see it yourself. he was very shake by it to begin with. and i think for a man incredibly genero
it makes it sexy and interesting place to work when i bet it will be net a huge positive to get equality people to the cia. despite her -- all of her personal problems, and that i think . >> [inaudible] [inaudible] and somebody should ask that question to the cia. what happened in the last six months. >> they have been cooperative. >> they realize that but it would be hard for any government agency to put their neck on the line saying yeah, i'm going support a by polar agent...
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shareholders may like high risk bets, particularly high leverage because they get higher returns from those high risks at least until something goes wrong. by contrast, debtholders have traditionally been a force for moderation in the marketplace because they only get a fixed rate of interest whatever the debt obligation promises and when the company starts to take more risk, it is managed. but implicit government backing of the deaths of our largest financial institutions mean that this market discipline has suddenly been undermined. so today i want to talk about my new book, while some firms thrive while others fail, this builds on my work at the financial crisis inquiry commission. we studied internal documents. i can't tell you how many, from financial institutions and their regulators, interviewed ceos risk officers, bankers, traders, regulators, publishingmakers and other people to try to understand from everybody's perspective putting it altogether what went on here and in 2010, we were still in a stage where people on wall street and in the financial system were in shock and p
shareholders may like high risk bets, particularly high leverage because they get higher returns from those high risks at least until something goes wrong. by contrast, debtholders have traditionally been a force for moderation in the marketplace because they only get a fixed rate of interest whatever the debt obligation promises and when the company starts to take more risk, it is managed. but implicit government backing of the deaths of our largest financial institutions mean that this market...
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when you went to bet, we have the curfew, you would put your valuables in your pajamas and in your coat every night in the daytime i would ride in the front of the double decker bus and see the people with the damage to the dockyard every day. then i was sent to a place where they were getting ready for the day. we ran the other party boats. there was no harbour but just open sea. it was difficult. and was incredibly tense. the young men and would get drunk every night. it was to be ears. every night we had to take them back. if you can imagine in the dark, not a single light on the sea or the land and grow your way out juicy and the places where they belong to. but one of the main things was listen to these people. they wanted to talk. they had no idea why they were there. they wanted to talk about their families. was thinking via other night i don't think any of them talked about the future but four hours and hours of a talk to the young mariners most of whom were lost and for what it meant to them. so i think it was just listening to the people. we were having a hard time being recog
when you went to bet, we have the curfew, you would put your valuables in your pajamas and in your coat every night in the daytime i would ride in the front of the double decker bus and see the people with the damage to the dockyard every day. then i was sent to a place where they were getting ready for the day. we ran the other party boats. there was no harbour but just open sea. it was difficult. and was incredibly tense. the young men and would get drunk every night. it was to be ears. every...
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you bet on nonexistent. but this leaves you with a slight problem. a scientific challenge that is right under your nose. if there is no creator, no engineer, no only nip tent conscious presiding over everything, then how did time and space come to be? how did the universe create something so unlikely, so prizing, something that broke every previous rule and made brand new rules of its own? how does a godless cosmos make pro tons, planets, crocodiles, crusaders and milky ways? how does it burp forth you and me? that becomes the quest of a lifetime for you. you will begin in 1956, the it's the mission you will pursue for over half a century, it's the question who's answer, be if you are lucky, can help us reperceive how does the cosmos create? it is the question. it is the god problem. there are clues to the god problem. clues in aristotle's sneaky tricks, clues in galileo's creationism, clues in isaac newton's intelligent design, clues in einstein's pajamas, clues in john conway's game of life, clues in the new kind of science and clues in those darn
you bet on nonexistent. but this leaves you with a slight problem. a scientific challenge that is right under your nose. if there is no creator, no engineer, no only nip tent conscious presiding over everything, then how did time and space come to be? how did the universe create something so unlikely, so prizing, something that broke every previous rule and made brand new rules of its own? how does a godless cosmos make pro tons, planets, crocodiles, crusaders and milky ways? how does it burp...
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dusty old cask alien that was spoken or written in before and somebody asked me just the other day, i bet if olivo were living today he would have been using social media. and i'm sure he would have. would he have change the language? i don't know. of course that is what we are here to discuss. which would bring us to the subject of the may king of books which is you know the bible tells us, there is no end to the making of books and we are very fortunate to have a great panel of speakers. we are still waiting for the fourth one to calm and i hope she will, dissenting on us like an angel from on high, but we have two representative -- i wanted to make sure we had two representatives of fiction from different houses and i chose nan talese and geofrey kloske because i thought they were two very different corners of the industry and it turns out that jeff, i think it was 10 days or week ago penguin and random house have merged making probably the largest trade publishing conglomerate in the world. although i thought i was inviting people from two corners of the world, they have become one co
dusty old cask alien that was spoken or written in before and somebody asked me just the other day, i bet if olivo were living today he would have been using social media. and i'm sure he would have. would he have change the language? i don't know. of course that is what we are here to discuss. which would bring us to the subject of the may king of books which is you know the bible tells us, there is no end to the making of books and we are very fortunate to have a great panel of speakers. we...
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and, of course, i won the bet. and joe negotiated his way out of the bet by saying i will give you $10,000 for the cure. they been great supporters of ours, and will do a fundraiser for you, and i won't wear a fake mustache of your choosing at a fund-raising. we have expanded on that and said if we could raise $1 million by the end of this month for epilepsy research for cure, that i would still shave my mustache off on "morning joe," and since this is the final week, we think we raised close to $900,000, but there's still time so anybody wants to log onto slashed the stash.com -- [laughter] and contribute applaud that. >> i know i speak on behalf of everybody when i say we look forward to seeing much more of you on campus, stash or now. we hope to see you without it. >> thank you. >> thank you for everything spent and i'm so excited to be here. i think this is going to be an extraordinary institute. i think the students will been in for a -- from it. the community will benefit from it. will make the university of
and, of course, i won the bet. and joe negotiated his way out of the bet by saying i will give you $10,000 for the cure. they been great supporters of ours, and will do a fundraiser for you, and i won't wear a fake mustache of your choosing at a fund-raising. we have expanded on that and said if we could raise $1 million by the end of this month for epilepsy research for cure, that i would still shave my mustache off on "morning joe," and since this is the final week, we think we...
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it made a difference we showed up, we worked, and that we left this state and this country in bet ore thandz than we found it. that's something to pass on to the next generation. >> wonderful, thank you, carol. kelly? >> it just seems too soon to talk legacy, but i really just hope that i'm able to be part of leaving the country in a stronger position, fiscalically and -- fiscalically -- fiscally and making sure our nation a safer and stronger. that's the goal. >> thank you, kelly. jeanne. >> i echo everything that's been said, but i'll continue to try to work across the aisle in a bipartisan way because that's how we solve the problems in this country, and, also, to try and make a difference for people. i think that's why i was sent to washington and the hundreds of people who call our office every month who need help with the federal government, with their pensions, with their va benefits, whatever it is that we can continue to help make a difference for them. >> thank you so much. i need to tell all of you, it has been -- i need to tell all of you -- it has been -- i sincerely, sin
it made a difference we showed up, we worked, and that we left this state and this country in bet ore thandz than we found it. that's something to pass on to the next generation. >> wonderful, thank you, carol. kelly? >> it just seems too soon to talk legacy, but i really just hope that i'm able to be part of leaving the country in a stronger position, fiscalically and -- fiscalically -- fiscally and making sure our nation a safer and stronger. that's the goal. >> thank you,...
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and one of the things that i know of no way to gather any real and critical bet on, and you will make, is make an analogy to when we first started dealing with the issue of crack cocaine. moynihan and i back in the early '80s -- coming from the bahamas actually. although i was senior, i was not equal to patrick moynihan. i never forget him standing up on the floor of the senate and holding up what was called and photostat a copy of a newspaper, front page of the newspapers from, i think 1937 or eight, where one of the mafia bosses was gunned down in a barber chair and riddled with the blood. he was just about decapitated with a machine gun, and it made the front page of every paper in america. then he held up, if i'm not mistaken, a "new york times," and he referenced a story and that happen, if i'm not mistaken, in the bronx where an entire family, grandmother, mother and father, three or four children, and in local were murdered execution style in their apartment. it made page 57 of "the new york times." he referred to it as defining deviancy down. and there's no major i'm aware of
and one of the things that i know of no way to gather any real and critical bet on, and you will make, is make an analogy to when we first started dealing with the issue of crack cocaine. moynihan and i back in the early '80s -- coming from the bahamas actually. although i was senior, i was not equal to patrick moynihan. i never forget him standing up on the floor of the senate and holding up what was called and photostat a copy of a newspaper, front page of the newspapers from, i think 1937 or...
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i prefer the bet that we did make. i'm all in favor of getting the japanese to pay more. and by the way, i'm proud of the fact that when i was undersecretary for mr. cheney, we got our allies to pay the entire $55 billion cost of desert storm. we didn't pay a nickel of added cost. we actually had a net positive balance of payments that year, as a matter of fact. and it took some rather heavy diplomacy with the japanese. but, by the way, one reason we were successful was because the japanese needed us. the people in the persian gulf are too weak to manage on their own, they need us. i think they're not quite sure whether we'll be there when they do need us. but the fact that we have been there almost ever since b the british abandoned aiden is the fact that there has been no serious -- [audio difficulty] since that 1973 oil embargo is because we have been there and because we were there when saddam invaded kuwait. i really worry the are e balancing -- the rebalancing may really be a pivot as was originally described, and that we will move from the middle east, and god know
i prefer the bet that we did make. i'm all in favor of getting the japanese to pay more. and by the way, i'm proud of the fact that when i was undersecretary for mr. cheney, we got our allies to pay the entire $55 billion cost of desert storm. we didn't pay a nickel of added cost. we actually had a net positive balance of payments that year, as a matter of fact. and it took some rather heavy diplomacy with the japanese. but, by the way, one reason we were successful was because the japanese...
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i would bet she would get probation. today, with tools like nibin, the ballistics network i talked about, we can tell the court for sentencing purposes that this gun was used to kill those people. we can do that. with tools like e*trade, ats electronic tracing system, we can follow again as it moves in a very sets of hands. sometimes following it right into the hands of the shooter. like sam cobbs in chicago. in addition, when we look at countries information collected over a period of time, we can analyze that for strategic purposes. look at patterns and trends. once we can understand patterns and trends, that's when we really understand the gun market, the conditions, the situation in our region. to do all this we have to balance a few things. we have to balance people, processes, and technology. just like a three-legged stool. if one is too short, the stool falls over. if one is too long, the stool falls over. they must be in balance to hold the weight of what we are trying to accomplish. do this, law enforcement need
i would bet she would get probation. today, with tools like nibin, the ballistics network i talked about, we can tell the court for sentencing purposes that this gun was used to kill those people. we can do that. with tools like e*trade, ats electronic tracing system, we can follow again as it moves in a very sets of hands. sometimes following it right into the hands of the shooter. like sam cobbs in chicago. in addition, when we look at countries information collected over a period of time, we...